| Biography: | Hall studied at Leicester College of Art
and the Royal College of Art. He became
the head of Time Based Studies at Kent
Institute of Art and Design. David
Hall has worked extensively in sculpture,
film and video. Throughout the 1960's
his sculpture was shown in major
exhibitions in New York, Paris, London
Tokyo, Amsterdam etc. In the late 1960's
he started to work in film and
electronic media. Since the early 1970's
he has exhibited installations and
single screen works in numerous
international venues.
He was on the organising committee of
the first international exhibition of
artists' video in Britain, 'The Video
Show' at the Serpentine Gallery in 1975,
and was a founder member of London Video
Arts in 1976. He has toured, lectured
and taught in the USA, Canada, Holland,
Italy and Poland, and has had
commissioned and other work broadcast on
BBC TV, Scottish TV, Channel 4 TV,
Finnish TV, and in Boston USA. His
articles have been published in the USA,
Britain, France and Holland.
Selected Films:
Motion Parallax 1969,
Vertical 1970,
Timecheck 1971,
7TV Pieces 1971,
View/Actor/This Surface/Edge/ Between 1972,
Phased Time 1975.
Selected Video Tapes:
This Is A Video Monitor 1974,
Relative Surfaces 1974,
Vid icon Inscriptions 1975,
This Is A Television Receiver 1976,
TV Fighter (Cam Era Plane) 1977,
Ghost Story 1978,
La Belle Nicoise 1979.
Selected Installations:
60 TV Sets 1972,
Progressive Recession 1974,
101 TV Sets 1975,
Vidicon Inscriptions (The Installation)
1975,
Water work (Narcissus) 1976,
The Situation Envisaged 1978,
The Situation Envisaged: The Rite 1980,
The Situation Envisaged: The Rite II 1988. | | | Source: | "Video Positive 89", festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 1989 |
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